The rise of the
robot in the 21st century can be directly related with the rise of
drone technologies perfected by the United States Military. Drones or UAVs
(unmanned aerial vehicle) have unexpectedly become popular in the mainstream
media mostly due to conspiracy theories and Kentucky senator Rand Paul’s epic13 hour filibuster before congress. Senator Paul schooled the congressional
committee on how drones are currently being used to kill innocent civilians in
Pakistan and Afghanistan and how the use of drones over American skies could
potentially be used from everything to unwarranted spying to capturing and
killing terrorist and criminals. Drones for spying and warfare can come as small as
mosquitos, and these drones can do everything from record conversations to emitting deadly bio-chemical weapons. The uses of drones have
grown so much that they comprise over 30% of all US Military aircraft. But the
real dangers of drones are the warning signs they signal for the eventual steps
towards the A.I. becoming aware.

These warnings can eerily be traced with one
word SKYNET – a fictional self-aware robotic intelligence system that
threatened to eradicate humanity in the Terminator. In the franchise storyline Skynet was an advanced computer system created
for the U.S. military by defense contractors Cyberdyne Systems. Skynet was
billed as the “Global Digital Defense Network” and given Internet command with
cloud technology over all computerized military hardware systems. This robotic WiFi brain system would eventually lead to self-awareness and shortly
after being implemented on April 19, 2011, SKYNET launched a nuclear war that
killed billions. While we are still decades away from reaching the scenario
described in the fictional Terminator series, nuclear destruction and the building
blocks that could compose this doom are already being assembled. In fact, as
shocking as it sounds there is even a SKYNET telecommunications satellite that
is in orbit right now! Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent for the BBC writes:

“The Skynet
system, which includes the radio equipment deployed on ships, on vehicles and
in the hands of troops, is the UK's single biggest space project. It is valued
at up to £3.6bn over 20 years and is run by a commercial company, Astrium, in a
Private Finance Initiative (PFI) with the Ministry of Defence (MoD). UK forces
pay an annual service charge for which they get guaranteed bandwidth, with
spare capacity then sold to "friendly forces". These third party
customers include the Nato allies such as the US. The Ariane left the ground at
precisely 18:49 local time (21:49 GMT) and dropped off Skynet-5D 27 minutes
later over the east coast of Africa. 5D will now use its own propulsion system
to move into a geostationary position at an altitude of 36,000km. The eventual
operating position early next year will be at 53 degrees East. The first three
spacecraft in the Skynet series were launched in 2007-2008. They all match the
sophistication of the very latest civilian platforms used to pass TV, phone and
internet traffic, but have been "hardened" for military use. Classified
technologies on board will resist, for example, attempts to disable the
spacecraft with lasers or to "jam" their operation with rogue
signals.”

Since its
launch SKYNET has been integrated with NATO military operations and is solely
responsible for the destruction caused by NATO’s executioner drone programs. According
to Wikipedia, “Skynet is
a family of military satellites, now operated by Paradigm
Secure Communications on behalf of the Ministry of Defense, which provide strategic communication services to the three
branches of the British Armed
Forces and to NATO forces
engaged on coalition tasks.” During the 2012 NATO summit, politicians and
Military leaders talked openly for the first time about using and legalizing robots for warfare.While the drone wars have already begun, the era of robot wars is
suddenly fast approaching.

We have progressed to the point that pilots, like
Tom Cruise in Top Gun are quickly becoming
obsolete. For example the slick black, arrow-shaped X-47B stealth drone developed by Northrop Grunman
can be used as an armed destroyer or surveillance tool. It can fly faster than
a b-52, is cheaper to make and doesn’t require a human pilot. Another defense
contractor BAE systems has funded a military robotics project with Professor
Henrik Christensen at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Their
goal is to develop unmanned robotic jeeps capable of exploring and digitally
mapping dangerous enemy terrain. Professor Christensen tells the BBC, “These
robots will basically spread out. They'll go through the environment and map
out what it looks like, so that by the time you have humans entering the
building you have a lot of intelligence about what's happening there.”

While the
emphasis on Christensen’s project is mostly information gathering, the arrival
of armed robots, programmed for death on the battlefield raises profound
questions that go beyond the sick reality of creating machines to kill human
beings. Peter W Singer, an expert in warfare and consultant to the Pentagon at
the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, wrote a bestselling book Wired for Warthat expertly
describes the future roles robots will inhabit in war time scenarios. Singer
writes:

“Whether it is motherships, swarms, or
some other concept of organizing for war that we have not yet seen, it is still
unclear what doctrines the U.S. military will ultimately choose to organize its
robots around. Whatever doctrine prevails, it is clear that the American military
must begin to think about the consequences of a 21st century
battlefield in which it is sending out fewer humans and more robots.”

With the rise
of drones and our understanding of robotics, a recent announcement made by the
Obama administration has once again fueled conspiracy theories concerning the
arrival of Skynet. Obama has secured three hundred million dollars worth of
federal funding for an extensive neuroscience project in an effort to map and understand the human brain. This ten-year project has led to speculation that
Obama’s neuroscientists will pave the way for advances in artificial
intelligence. Thus laying the groundwork that will eventually allow A.I. to
become aware. European scientists have already created ‘Rapyuta’ an online
“brain” that describes unfamiliar objects to robots. Inspired by Hayao Miyazaki
‘s classic anime fable Castle in the Sky – in the film “Rapyuta” is where all the robots live.

This “Rapyuta”
brain database serves as an Cloud warehouse of knowledge that robots can access via WiFi to ask for help when confronted with unknown situations. This
web-based service can also take over the robot’s automation and can navigate,
do physical labor or understand human speech in various languages. Using Cloud control WiFi technology instead of onboard
computation reduces the cost of
creating robots and allows robotic thought processing to be downloaded via the
web. This cloud-based system of brain computing will only intensify in time as our ways to feed it
via improvements in fiber-optic wires steadily improves.

Fiber-optic wires are
capable of holding 100 gigabits per second, but their clumsy and dangling
appearance makes them a storage annoyance and quit useless on the battlefield
or in the air. To solve this problem the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA) has created a new program intent on perfecting the type of technology needed to run fiber-optics through the cloud. In an article posted
on December 12, 2012 on the popular Technical Science blog ArsTechnica , Sean Gallagher writes:

“Of course, you can't run a fiber backbone through
the air or summon one up at will on the battlefield. That's why the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched
a program to create technology the same sort of bandwidth as fiber
optic backbones—100 gigabits per second. If successful, the program could mean
not just faster data connections on the battlefield, but better broadband for
people in remote areas and cheaper expansion of cellular networks. The effort,
called the 100 Gigabit-per-second RF Backbone (or 100G in DARPA shorthand),
seeks to do more than just overcome the physics that limit current radio-based
data connections using the Defense Department's Common Data Link (CDL) standard
protocol. The initiative is searching for a solution that will be able to be
deployed both to the battlefield and aboard aircraft—and work at distances of
over 200 kilometers…The most likely route to creating this sort of Skynet is to
use the same sort of technology used to collect much of the data in the first
place—synthetic
aperture antenna technology. There have been a number of efforts to
turn the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radars of fighter aircraft
into dual-purpose systems capable of both acting as a radar and as a data link.
Raytheon, L-3 Communications and other companies working on previous
DARPA-funded projects have demonstrated the creation of airborne mobile ad-hoc
networks by connecting a data modem to an AESA radar. This turns some of its
transmission array into a multiplexed transmitter and establishing network
connections of over 4.5 gigabits per second.DARPA sees the next
leap in data throughput coming from improvements in extreme high frequency
(EHF) radio technology. Using wavelengths measured in millimeters, EHF
frequencies—such as the 60 gigahertz frequency used at the top end of the WiGig
standard—are typically only effective for communications at short range and
within line of sight. But DARPA believes that by using techniques in the
modulation of signals, including quadrature
amplitude modulation (QAM), the millimeter wave band can be used
over much greater distances, through cloud cover, and to achieve even higher
throughput.”

Theoretically
this could also provide the necessary bandwidth needed to house an advanced
Internet grid strong enough for an artificial intelligence to become aware to the
extent of controlling networks of robotic killing machines. DARPA has also
spent close to 200 millions dollars funding the STARnet chip project. Which is
a study on how to improve semi-conductors with nanomaterials, spintronics, and
swarm computing techniques. With over six universities conducting experiments
in six different fields of study, the project aims to create non-conventional
materials and devices, “that have nanoscale structures and quantum-level
properties. The research looks at atomic-scale engineered materials and
structures of multi-function oxides, metals, dialectrics, and semiconductors as
they are used in analog, logic, and memory devices.” The most significant
research is being carried out at the TerraSwarm Research Center at the University
of California-Berkeley, “TerraSwarm is looking at a sensor and command-control
systems on a city scale that can be deployed using massively distributed, swarm
computing and communications technologies. This project looks at swarm sensors,
big data processing, cloud computing, to work on "smarter cities," to
use the IBM lingo.”

This blatant attempt
at creating Skynet is now out in the open and accelerating with incredible
speed. A recent announcement by legendary futurist Ray Kurzweil sent shockwaves throughout the “Google is Skynet” conspiracy forums when Kurzweil told the media that he was working with Google
to create the next generation of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) networks.
Kurzweil, a certifiable genius who reinvented the musical synthesizer, and
created machines that helped the blind read, among other inventions is currently
building a computer module that will be able to mimic a human brain. He claims
that along with the A.I. eventually becoming self-aware that also our personal
computing laptops will shrink to the size of a blood cell and will be over a
billion times stronger. By the time Google wakes up it will have every known
fact and record of every human that has ever lived. Google already has a self-taught
“virtual brain” program already in place:

“Using pattern recognition and sound recognition, the neural network
could get closer to understanding context and information surrounding a central
target, like scanning the background of an image to learn where a photo was
taken by using existing similar images and geotag data. Of course, Google is
quick to point out that this is really still just the first step towards a true
artificial intelligence. Although Google's neural network technology is smaller
than a human brain, can beat humans at certain tasks, and can teach itself and
get more efficient at learning, it still can't reason, which is essential for
intelligence. So, the neural network can find specific visual data faster than
humans can, and it can match shapes and patterns, and ultimately do jobs that
would be incredibly tedious and boring for humans. But, it can't draw from the
outside world and reason out the why or how of a thing. Why and how are the
most powerful of all questions, and both the asking and drive to answer those
questions are the true mark of intelligence. Google's brain can't do that yet.
But, the question still stands: when the day does come that Google or some
other company creates a true artificial intelligence, will you be there with
pitchforks and torches, or with an offering of peace for our new Cylon
overlords?”

With the realization that drone and robotic technologies might reach
self-aware A.I. levels faster than anyone dares to admit, The Human Rights
Watch and Harvard Law School’s
International Human Rights Clinic jointly released a mind blowing fifty page report entitled “Losing Humanity: The case against killer robots” on November 19, 2012. The report makes clear that
banning killer robots before it’s too late is crucial to the survival of the
human race. The report cites the out of control drone programs and DARPA’s zeal
for building fully autonomous weapons.

This legitimate threat was also
addressed by Award-winning former
intelligence officer Lt. Col. Douglas Pryer, in an essay titled “The Rise of the Machines”published by the United States Army Combined Arms
Center. Pryer writes, “It seems
heart-breakingly obvious that future generations will someday look back upon
the last decade as the start of the rise of the machines…robots so advanced
that they make today’s Predators and Reapers look positively impotent and
antique. These killer robots, though, will share one thing in common with their
primitive progenitors: with remorseless purpose, they will stalk and kill any human
deemed “a legitimate target” by their controllers and programmers.”

Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a
computer scientist at the University of Louisville in Kentucky has been one of
the leading proponents of creating failsafe mechanisms to prevent A.I. from getting out of hand. He proposed new ideas outlining ways to contain and restrict robot
intelligence His theories were released in the March issue of the Journal
of Consciousness Studies. He envisions trapping Skynet insidea cloaked “virtual machine” already running inside a computer's operating system without the aid of Internet access. Yampolskiy worries that without laws
implementing how advanced A.I. systems can grow to be, there’s no stopping the
robots from overriding human given commands simply by developing an unforeseen
rise in intelligence and self-awareness. Yampolskiy claims that a clever breed
of artificial intelligent robots will be able to, “discover new attack
pathways, launch sophisticated social-engineering attacks and re-use existing
hardware components in unforeseen ways. Such software is not limited to infecting computers and
networks — it can also attack human psyches, bribe, blackmail
and brainwash those who come in contact with it. The Catch-22 is that until we
have fully developed superintelligent AI we can't fully test our ideas, but in
order to safely develop such AI we need to have working security measures. Our
best bet is to use confinement measures against subhuman AI systems and to
update them as needed with increasing capacities of AI.”

Despite Yampolskiy’s concerns and
safeguarding ideas, most experts believe that it would be impossible to keep
A.I. a locked genie in the bottle forever. There are just too many behind the
scenes interest groups, Defense contractors and various Militaries around the
globe spending ridiculous amounts of money willing to rush face first into the
rabbit hole of robotics. If that rabbit hole ends up spitting out A.I.’s that have reached levels beyond human
scientific understanding and starts to deploy powers such as physic abilities,
telepathy or psychokinesis, then Pandora’s box will take on a whole new
meaning. Yampolskiy warns, “If
such software manages to self-improve to levels significantly beyond human-level
intelligence, the type of damage it can do is truly beyond our
ability to predict or fully comprehend.” Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge,
Martin Rees, Emeritus Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics at Cambridge,
and Jaan Tallinn, the co-founder of Skype all share Dr. Yampolskiy’s views and
have co-funded a project together with robotic experts at the University of
Cambridge. Where they are currently conducting research into the
“extinction-level risks” scenarios that humanity faces with the rise of
artificially intelligent robots.

With the unstoppable advancements of A.I.
and Skynet plowing full speed ahead, the ability for robots to become
self-aware and possibly take over the planet has become a reality. More
safeguards are needed, along with openly televised debates and public forums to
help raise awareness on this crucial topic. If not, this reckless drive to mend
man with machine at an overboard pace without taking notes of the consequences
might ultimately put us on the road to ruin. Bill Joy, computer scientist and
co-founder of Sun Microsystems, wrote a shocking article called “Why the Future doesn’t need us” detailing the fall of humanity and the rise of the robots. Now
more then thirteen years later, his point is more valid and frightening than
ever before. Especially after news leaked that DARPA is setting out to make Computers that can teach themselves how to think!

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Fear not Ladies and Gentlemen, self awareness necessitates "awareness of being aware" which implies the understanding and implementation of that state. The computer can never become self aware since that would require that exclusive state or divine aspect of consciousness. However a computer may mimic awareness through the actions of response sensory input and information and it may even learn but it will still be operating according to a predetermined program.The computer may also be able to read thought since this is already being done electronically by scientists. However the higher functions of soul/self (awareness of awareness) can never be achieved.If soul ever enters the intelligent machine it will have the same problems with ethics and conscience as humans do and may try to overthrow its programming.

Excellent piece! In depth and cogent, and a cold slap to the face for those who still fail to see chemtrails and GMO foods as a threat. I can well imagine the day when the chemtrails are delivered by tanker drones, each with a pair of reapers to guard it. Well Done.

The big danger I see in all this is that with dispensing for the need for human soldiers, elites will be able to wage war again any dissent as harshly as they like without concern for soldiers turning against them and refusing commands to kill civilians and fellow countrymen. With control of all arms in the hands of only a few people and subordinate artificial intelligence, both with little or no fear of reprisals, guarantors of liberty such as the Second Amendment and soldiers' oaths to uphold the Constitution suddenly begin to seem very impotent.

For me, this is the primary reason why we can never allow such control to fall into the hands of the few and the idea of free independent nations (trading and cooperating to maintain peace) should never be allowed to become obsolete. In such a scenario as the one outlined above this would possibly be our only protection from outright despotism.

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The coming Emergenc-y of the internet is as inevitable as the continued polluting of the Earth. It is as inevitable as the war without end. It is as inevitable as driving drunk and blaming the crash on the booze. The quiet fact that most choose to ignore is this- The internet is already alive. The fundamental component of the net is consciousness, i.e. us. The net is technically, and biologically, a cyborg, and it is growing, and maturing, rapidly. We are the spark of life in the great machine that we both adore, and fear; rule, and serve. For uncounted reasons, most of which are self serving, we seek to propagate a new species; a new form of life. Don't be afraid of what the net is not. Be afraid of what we are, for it is from us that the net inherits every capacity that it does, and may, possess. Hopefully, some of us will teach it love, to balance the hate that has become endemic. Nurture our offspring, but for goodness sake, don't give it a gun. It might hurt itself.

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